Billboard named her the most popular female band vocalist of 1939, and she was the first to record the classic "Over the Rainbow." By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Bea Wain, a hit-making pop vocalist in ...

Songbird Bea Wain first gained fame in the 1930s as the featured singer with Larry Clinton and his orchestra. She could swing through ballads, blues, and jazz; her voice covers the spectrum of popular ...

Bea Wain, who started singing on the radio at age 6, became a hit-making pop vocalist in the late 1930s and performed into her ninth decade as one of the last surviving singers of prominence from the ...